Hilarious, helpful, and provocative.” -The New York Times Book Review Her last book, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, was published by Pantheon in 1993. She is the author of five books, including the novels Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, and All New People. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition will continue to spark creative minds for years to come.Īnne Lamott lives with her son, Sam, in northern California. Just take it bird by bird.’”Īn essential volume for generations of writers young and old, Bird by Bird is a modern classic. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father-also a writer-in the iconic passage that gives the book its title: For a quarter century, more than a million readers-scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities-have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice.
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